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A phrase often tossed around in ‘gun enthusiast’ circles is “Every serious gun owner should have a .22 LR.” The little pills are cheap to buy in bulk and keep you practicing all day for relatively little money… And practice makes perfect, right? While I wholeheartedly agree with the premise that ‘trigger time’ helps improve your skill regardless of the caliber you shoot, I must admit that I don’t always adhere to the rules. I mean… If I’m going to undergo the task of packing up, getting my wife or shooting buddy to drive 35 miles to the range with me, and clean whatever guns we shoot afterwards – I want to pack something with a punch!

At any given time, there are numerous threads on internet discussion boards requesting a recommendation for a good quality inside-the-waistband (IWB) holster. I have read and responded in many of them with my recommendation. However, until recently my experience was limited to Comp-Tac products and a few low-end IWBs.

All too often, we shooters find ourselves having to rebut inane stereotypes about our fellow shooters and the industry in general. One of the more common misconceptions involves the process of buying guns via the Internet (usually called an FFL transfer). Typically, John Q public thinks that the “Internet gun buyer” is either purchasing guns illegally or somehow attempting to skirt the law – as if it’s so easy to do. This stigma is often reinforced every time some crazy-ass whack job uses a gun he/she bought using the FFL transfer method to shoot up a public place. Even on the “less” anti-gun networks, you will often hear commentators opine about how a gun buyer shouldn’t be able to just order a gun the same way one buys an iPod from the Apple store. Poor uninformed schleps…

Fabrique Nationale de Herstal, or National Factory of Herstal to those of us not well versed in the French language, is one of those multi-billion dollar firearms companies that the average shooter may have never even heard of. Commonly known as FN, the company has assets in the USA, and manufactures guns under the Browning (since the brand’s inception) and Winchester (since 1989) names. FN is headquartered in (the French part of) Belgium, just outside the city of Liege. Unlike quite a few other firearms companies in Europe, FN actually started out as a gun factory. Since its inception in 1889, the company has gone on to produce such all-time greats as the FN FAL, the P35 (Browning) Hi-Power, and the M240-series medium machine guns currently in use by the US military.

If only I had a dollar for every time I’ve been asked if my suppressors, machineguns, or short-barrel shotguns were legal, I wouldn’t have to work in order to afford more of them. The fact is, in most of the United States, those weapons are 100% legal for civilians to own, as long as they are properly registered with the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms, and Explosives (BATFE), and the proper taxes are paid for their transfer. In this article, we’ll take a look at the National Firearms Act of 1934 (NFA34, or just NFA) and the process necessary to own these weapons.

Like many who have stumbled across this site, I’ve been doing a lot of thinking about the political and economic situation our country finds itself in. The statement (as Rush Limbaugh often says) “ignorance is our most expensive commodity” rings truer by the day, as we have apparently elected a President and Congress that are hell bent on destroying the liberty, freedom, and wealth of this nation – and thus the concept we all know as America.